Science Needs You as GO Mosquito Participant

As Active GO MOSQUITO Challenge Schools, you and your classmates can contribute to learning more about this global health problem by using the GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper App to identify where these disease-carrying mosquito larvae are found in your homes, neighborhoods and communities.

The GLOBE Observer Mosquito App provides you with an easy to use mobile platform to identify and locate mosquito breeding sites in your community, and to determine whether the larvae you find could potentially mature into vectors of mosquito borne disease. Together with your help, we can better zero in on mosquitoes carrying deadly diseases such as the Zika virus.

Download the GLOBE Observer App to Start Collecting Data

If you haven’t already, follow this link to download the GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper App and start following the GO Mosquito Community Challenge Campaign’s Weekly Challenge to collect and upload data on mosquitoes in your community.

Challenge 2: Using the app, collect 3 new data points: quantifying 3 new mosquito breeding grounds that are man made where you live and decommission them.

Challenge 3: Branding Challenge: currently we use @GONASA and #GONASA as hashtag to add on images and videos that you have created for social media. Post images on social media of your project either of you using the app and discovering mosquito breeding habitats, identifying mosquito larva species and decommissioning a site.

Challenge 4: Art and Graphics : Create a graphic poster or other art form that can be an educational tool raising public awareness about mosquito borne disease. Ideas and concepts can include but are not limited to;

mosquito life cycle

identifying mosquito larva species,

diligence about removing mosquito breeding sites where you live.

importance of mosquito control for public health safety

symptoms and treatment for mosquito borne disease that are in your communities for example Zika vs Chikungunya

Ways to reduce exposure to Zika and why it is important ( addressing that Zika is the only mosquito borne disease that is also a sexually transmitted disease.

Using the app search for all the potential mosquito breeding grounds and remove all the containers you can find.

Note: This can also be turned into a Virtual Science Fair project by quantifying the types and amounts of breeding grounds that you have on campus. You can attach a responsibility marker on them to see what is the source of the these mosquito habitats and who is responsible for creating them. You can do a community outreach campaign to try and work with those that create the breeding ground so that they know the impact and prevent more from being created in your community.

Our Shared Global Challenge: Identifying Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes

The Aedes aegypti mosquito is the principal transmission vector of several serious diseases, including Zika, chikungunya, yellow fever and dengue. Aedes aegypti mosquitoes transmit the Zika virus to humans. In most cases, these infections cause mild flu-like symptoms, but serious neurological complications in adults and infants were recognized during the explosive 2015 pandemic in the Americas.

Sophisticated probability maps, such as the one above, provide an incomplete understanding of the actual global distribution of Aedes aegypti and another disease-carrying species, Aedes albopictus. The range and distribution of these mosquito disease vectors is changing rapidly, complicated by global trade, international travel and climate change.